Discover the thrilling world of Super Smash Bros., where you can craft and mold your very own Nintendo character.

Explore the fascinating world of 3D modeling in our “Intro to 3D modeling and design with SketchUp” class.

Explore the fascinating world of 3D modeling in our “Intro to 3D modeling and design with SketchUp” class.

Discover the thrilling world of Super Smash Bros., where you can craft and mold your very own Nintendo character.

Explore the fascinating world of 3D modeling in our “Intro to 3D modeling and design with SketchUp” class.

The College of Music and Media will host the 2024 Creative Summer Experience, a comprehensive boot camp that exposes high school students to careers in motion design, graphic design, book arts, UX design, photography, game design, journalism, film and music.

The College of Music and Media will host the 2024 Creative Summer Experience, a comprehensive boot camp that exposes high school students to careers in motion design, graphic design, book arts, UX design, photography, game design, journalism, film and music.

Dive into the world of game design. Over a thrilling week, use Co SpacesEDU to craft your own virtual Olympic events. Unleash your creativity, compete with peers and experience the excitement of playing each other's creations on the final day.

Gear up for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris by diving into our camp! Learn to code your own Olympic event, infuse movement, and watch as your classmates experience your creation in virtual reality. Unleash your "A-Game" early and let the coding games begin!

A great introduction to game logic, layout, design, and play, play, play! Maybe the most fun and innovative camps of the summer. Perennially, our most popular camp over the past 10 years. Direct from the laboratories at MIT, with Scratch students design and compose their own world and gaming environments, and then use Scratch visual coding to create their own interactive stories, games, and animations. When complete the children can publish their creations and share them with others in the online community and download any of the hundreds of thousands of games produced by others. A truly unique visual environment that opens the doors to logic, coding and “design thought” for even the youngest learners. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. Participants investigate the how, why and fun of computer programming in this interactive camp, all within a comfortable, non-intimidating visual environment. Students will engage in problem solving strategies and create their own unique games, animations and interactive stories using logic concepts such as Cartesian coordinates, variables, decisions, and iterative processes. No prior programming experience required – basic keyboarding ability and nothing more. Camp attendees must bring their own computer; Windows or Apple / Mac work equally well. iPads can work but there is functionality (key up, key down, other keyboard events) that will not work, and can be “glitchy” with Scratch.

Join us for an experience you will never forget, as we chase the spirit of America’s favorite pastime through the heartland! We’ll head north and catch a minor league baseball game in Peoria, IL. Next, we’ll travel to Iowa to watch two classic movies about baseball (“The Sandlot” and “Field of Dreams”) at one of the two remaining drive-in theaters in the state. The following day we’ll play a baseball game on the actual baseball field that was built and featured in the “Field of Dreams” movie. In addition to our baseball focused activities, we will also break up the drive by stopping to explore caves at Maquoketa Caves State Park as well as taking some leisurely breaks at various swimming holes along the route.

Check out the world's greatest empire - the Mongols!

Check out the world's greatest empire - the Mongols!

Come Invent with Us! A confidence-boosting STEM summer camp where kids build creative inventions and lasting friendships. Led by certified local educators, our camps offer new and exciting hands-on activities every year.

An environmentally friendly pop-up business - learn about business, science, marketing & more! (3rd - 8th grades)